Ellen Beldner: Apps Are Just Little Websites In Cheap Fur Coats

Technically, the only difference between an installed app and a website is that the app has access to more of your device’s hardware. Platonically, from a human-need perspective, they’re the exact same thing: A collection of tools and information that lets you do something.

It’s a particular garden or destination.

You have to learn that it exists.

You have to understand what functionality it offers or what tasks it lets you accomplish.

You have to know how to navigate to it.

You have to learn how to use it.

You have to establish a relationship with it: by downloading, creating an account; paying for it.